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C. Has been adjudicated in this State or under the laws of
the United States or any other state to have engaged in
conduct as a juvenile that, if committed by an adult, would
have been a disqualifying conviction:

 
(1) Under paragraph A-1, subparagraphs (1) to (4) and
bodily injury to another person was threatened or
resulted; or

 
(3) Under paragraph A-1, subparagraph (5); or

 
D. Is subject to an order of a court of the United States
or a state, territory, commonwealth or tribe that restrains
that person from harassing, stalking or threatening an
intimate partner, as defined in 18 United States Code,
Section 921(a), of that person or a child of the intimate
partner of that person, or from engaging in other conduct
that would place the intimate partner in reasonable fear of
bodily injury to the intimate partner or the child, except
that this paragraph applies only to a court order that was
issued after a hearing for which that person received actual
notice and at which that person had the opportunity to
participate and that:

 
(1) Includes a finding that the person represents a
credible threat to the physical safety of an intimate
partner or a child; or

 
(2) By its terms, explicitly prohibits the use,
attempted use or threatened use of physical force
against an intimate partner or a child that would
reasonably be expected to cause bodily injury.

 
For the purposes of this subsection, a person is deemed to have
been convicted upon the acceptance of a plea of guilty or nolo
contendere or a verdict or finding of guilty, or of the
equivalent in a juvenile case, by a court of competent
jurisdiction.

 
For the purposes of this subsection, a person is deemed to have
been found not criminally responsible by reason of mental disease
or defect upon the acceptance of a plea of not criminally
responsible by reason of insanity or a verdict or finding of not
criminally responsible by reason of mental disease or defect, or
of the equivalent in a juvenile case, by a court of competent
jurisdiction.

 
Sec. 8. 15 MRSA §393, sub-§1-A, as amended by PL 2001, c. 549, §3, is
further amended to read:


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